Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unholy Cow. In New Ulm, Minn., police forbade truckers to park livestock near churches when congregations complained that off-key moos loused up the hymns...
...sweetness & light dispensed, the Baron hurried off with the moody Van Mook and three Indonesian representatives to isolated St. Hubertus Lodge in Holland's De Hooge Veluwe National Park. In the secluded hunting estate, the conferees wrestled with the last loose ends of an agreement which had been fashioned in preliminary Java meetings. The stubborn Dutch and fanatic Indonesians had found a middle ground. Indonesia would become an autonomous "full and equal" partner with The Netherlands, Surinam and Curaçao, under the Dutch crown...
Bernard M. Baruch, whose fair-weather office as wartime presidential adviser was a Washington park bench, was back on the bench, but this time in Manhattan's Central Park. The U.S. representative to U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission conducted Visitor Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. to it, observed: "Oh, oh-someone's taken the office." But the woman with the baby carriage moved away...
Between mouthfuls of toast and coffee the Kollmars broadcast from their swank 16-room Park Avenue apartment. They munch over the Times, books, hats, recipes, the theater, Broadway folk. Dorothy glides from chat into commercial as easily as into a housecoat. Dick gets his words in edgewise...
...Woman. To keep abreast of the woeful tide, Mrs. Gilmer is up at 7 a.m. With a stenographer and her companion-secretary, she zips through her daily grist with a sharp eye out for the "angle" that will cue a sermonette. Every afternoon her chauffeur drives her through Audubon Park and back to the swank Prytania Street apartment. Her stock wisecrack, when showing guests her fine Louis XIV bed: "I'll bet I'm the only respectable woman who ever slept...